Interactive Fiction (IF)
This page is designed to aggregate various resources around the topic of interactive fiction (IF) - a genre of adventure or role-playing game in which players use text commands to control characters and explore the game environment. Often IF games require the player to solve riddles and puzzles to accomplish various goals in the game.
Wikipedia Index of Topics
- ADRIFT
- Adventure Game Toolkit
- Colosal Cave Adventure
- Interactive Fiction
- Get Lamp Documentary
- List of Text-Based Computer Games
- Infocom
- Inform
- Professional Adventure Writer (PAW)
- SPAG e-zine
- TADS
- The Quill
- TWINE
- Z-Machine
- Zork
Index of People
- Aaron A. Reed
- Andrew Plotkin
- Chris Crawford
- David Welbourn
- Don Woods
- Emily Short
- Graham Nelson
- Henon Ondricek
- Will Crowther
General Links and Resources
- brasslantern.org
- eblong.com
- if-archive.org
- ifcomp.org
- IFDB
- ifwiki.org
- inform-fiction.org
- intfiction.org
- introcomp.org
- Let’s Tell a Story Together
- planet-if.org
- Spring Thing
- Textadventures
- The Craft of Adventure (Book)
- zarfhome.com
- 50 Years of Text Games (Newsletter)
Game Compilers & Tools
- How to Make Your Own Text Adventure Games: 7 Tools
- Inform 6
- Inform 7
- Ink
- Inklewriter
- Quest
- Squiffy
- TADS
- Twine